Hello, I'm Brian
Senior front-end and product engineer with 13 years delivering customer-facing software, integrations, and regulated financial workflows. Recent work pairs accessible React and TypeScript interfaces with applied AI: Intake Desk, an evidence-linked review workflow in development, and Salesforce Intelligence, a live grounded CRM assistant.
Available for product engineering roles · Chicago, IL · Remote OK
Featured Projects
Latest Work
Build starting
Intake Desk
Legal intake where every AI-extracted field shows its evidence and a human approves before anything is written.
React · TypeScript · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · OpenAI structured outputs
Salesforce Intelligence
RAG assistant that answers questions over live Salesforce data.
Python · OpenAI · LangChain · Pinecone · Salesforce API
Ticket Triage
Python classifier comparing keyword rules with OpenAI outputs on labeled examples.
Python · OpenAI API · Pydantic
Latest Writing
Blog
Deep dives into building AI applications, enterprise integrations, and customer-facing products. From architecture decisions to production deployment.
Where I've Been
Experience
Independent Product Engineer
Dec 2025 – PresentInsolla (Consulting and portfolio development) · Chicago, IL
- ›Delivered an automated content pipeline that cut a business owner’s weekly workflow from 8 hours to 10 minutes.
- ›Built and deployed Salesforce Intelligence, a live grounded assistant over Salesforce developer-org data with source records for every answer.
- ›Build applied-AI and integration systems with Python, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, RAG, REST APIs, webhooks, and cloud deployment.
- ›Design Salesforce integrations with scoped access, OAuth 2.0 JWT authentication, metadata-filtered retrieval, and source grounding.
- ›Designing Intake Desk, a human-reviewed intake workflow with structured extraction, exact evidence, deterministic checks, and approval before any destination write.
- ›Benchmarked Ticket Triage’s rules and structured AI outputs against labeled development and holdout examples.
- ›Translate discovery into solution designs, technical demonstrations, evaluation plans, and handoffs documenting customer decisions, data risks, and implementation tradeoffs.
Lead Front-End Developer
Oct 2020 – Jan 2024Marex · Chicago, IL
- ›Led the front-end program that replaced paper-based broker and trader onboarding at a global financial-services firm with an end-to-end digital process.
- ›Delivered React and TypeScript interfaces for regulated onboarding workflows and supporting products.
- ›Integrated the DocuSign API across multiple products to move document signing fully online within the firm’s compliance requirements.
- ›Managed a five-person front-end team through delivery planning, code review, and mentoring.
- ›Designed and ran the team’s internship program.
- ›Partnered with compliance, operations, and trading stakeholders to scope rollouts and sequence releases.
- ›Supported adoption across trading and operations teams.
Additional Experience
What I Know
Skills
Front-end first, with the integration and applied AI work that customer-facing, regulated products need.
Product Engineering
Integrations & Workflows
Customer & Technical Delivery
Applied AI & Retrieval
Python & Data
On My Bookshelf
Currently Reading
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
Chip Huyen
A guide to building real applications on top of foundation models.
Mastering Technical Sales: The Sales Engineer's Handbook
John Care and Aron Bohlig
A handbook on technical sales and the role of the sales engineer.
What People Say
Testimonials
Brian and I worked together on the User Experience team, where he was brought in to assist with front end development of our UIUX projects. He did a great job of quickly jumping in to the mix to work on several of our internal projects, bringing a willingness to learn and a positive attitude to every project. He is also very eager to suggest new approaches to projects and brings an innovative, forward-thinking mindset. He is a talented, energetic and very enthusiastic developer and would be a great asset to any team.
Brian is a hard working & focused user interface and user experience developer. In our time working together at R1, Brian was consistently dedicated and focused on complex projects, often times putting in significant extra work to help the team meet deadlines. He worked equally well with local teams in the office as well as teams based in India. Good teammate that will help you bring your UI/UX to the next level.
From LinkedIn, earlier in my front-end engineering career.